Ten red silhouettes stood silent and virtually alone in a Polk County court room to bear witness to the devastation caused by domestic violence. Mourners included family members, victim advocates and some cops.

Those silhouettes spoke volumes without saying a word. They told how they were all killed in Polk County by an intimate partner or spouse. They spoke of how they wanted not to have died in vain. They shouted that something had to be done to keep their numbers from growing.

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